Theological Journals, Part 2

Modern Reformation (July/Aug 2022): in “When Doctrine Divides the People of God,” Dr. Rhyne is interviewed and opines about “unity” and “doctrinal uniformity.” There are primary, secondary and tertiary issues that do and should unite Bible believers. Calvin Theological Journal (Spring 2022): in “The Beatitudes and the Life of the Church, Gerard M, Cisar argues the “poor in spirit” and those divested of land. We look forward to ending this reading. Westminster Theological Journal (Nov 2021, 355-381): “Classical Versus Contemporary: Engaging Trinitarian and Pneumatological Modelling for Ongoing Theological Construction:” Torey J.S. Teer is wonking out on the Third Article Theology and Spirit Christology, obscuring the Person and Work of Christ in the NT. Mid-America Journal of Theology (Fall 2021): in “Should Effectual Calling and Regeneration be Distinguished,” Dr. Cornelius Venema deals with Turretin’s third proposition about conversion (daily and habitual) in distinction from the more narrow view, that is, regeneration, the basis of habitual, daily turning to God, a broader sense. Global Anglican (Spring 2022): in “John Owen on the Dangers of Biblicism,” Rev. Rich Duncan (CoE, Peterborough, UK) hits homeruns on the Socinians of Owens’s day—twisting the attributes of God (as heretics and apostates always will), denying God’s holiness and justice in relation to sinner, voiding the penal atonement, and denying the Trinity. Although Socinianism was a small and insignificant politic force in England, theologians were all over Socinianism as a danger, error-filled form of decadence. Send the memo over to Sharon Baker of Princeton Seminary—same yabba-dabba-do in modern dress but a reassertion of Marcionism and Socinianism.